Article: Economic refugees - Scaling heights.(Review)

THE UNINVITED: REFUGEES AT THE RICH MAN'S GATE. By Jeremy Harding. Profile Books; 128 pages; Pounds5.99

YAGUINE KOITA and Fode Tounkara, two young men from Guinea hoping to make a new life in Europe, hid in the vegetation at the end of the airport runway in the capital, Conakry, waiting while a Sabena aircraft taxied towards them. "As it swung around to line up for take-off, they leapt the airport fence, sprinted under the howling turbines and clambered into the undercarriage. It is unusual to survive for very long at minus forty or fifty centigrade." The pair froze to death.

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